Week 1
Lesson 1
Custom Biomes and Dimensions
Students learn how to create their own custom worlds (biomes) in Minecraft.  They learn how to customize the land, air, and water colors.  Students also create custom trees that will generate in their biome.  Finally, students learn to create their own dimension to hold the biomes they create.
 Week 2
Lesson 2
Weather Event: Part 1
Students start a 3 part lesson in which they will learn how to generate a custom storm in Minecraft with clouds and particles they design.  The focus in this lesson is on creating the custom clouds and coding them to release particles (downfall like rain).  At the end of the lesson, students also practice creative problem solving to brainstorm ideas for how they can code the particles to deal damage to the player.
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Plants
Students learn how to use Blockbench to design and create a custom plant for Minecraft.  This plant will later be used to help trigger the storm they started working in the previous class.  Focus is on how to create a model for the plant and texture it. 
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Weather Event: Part 2
Students learn how to write code that keeps track of when a player destroys (mines) one of the plants they made in the previous lesson.  They learn how to use global variables to store this information and logic to trigger code that builds an array of the clouds they designed in lesson 2.  Students also learn about using a creative problem solving technique called copy-nature in which they look to designs in nature to come up with creative solutions to a problem.
 Week 5
Lesson 5
Creating a Vehicle: Part 1
Students learn how to use Blockbench to design a drivable vehicle for Minecraft.  Students work with the teacher to create the front and rear axles.  After students add the frame with the teacher, they work to build the body of the vehicle following certain parameters so a player in Minecraft can sit in and drive the vehicle.
 Week 6
Lesson 6
Creating a Vehicle: Part 2
Students learn how to texture their vehicles before bringing them into MInecraft.  They then move their vehicle model from Blockbench into MCreator and choose the correct settings so their player is able to ride and control the vehicle.
 Week 7
Lesson 7
Key Binding
Students learn how to create a key binding in MCreator for their vehicle.  This allows students to code their vehicle to do something when they press a chosen key on the keyboard.  This involves using global variables and logic in their code.  Students also learn how to generate creative ideas for other key bindings using a technique called random words.  This involves generating a random word and generating creative ideas that connect to the word.
 Week 8
Lesson 8
Final Project
Students have the opportunity to take everything they learned over the two modding classes to work on a final project.  They have the option of creating a new vehicle, tool, or mob.  Students first complete the planning guide using some of the creative brainstorming techniques they have learned in the class.  After planning, they work to complete the project and share with the class at the end.